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Elspeth Guild is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across social sciences, with a particular focus on political science, international relations, sociology, law, and health. The scholar has produced a substantial body of work in the social sciences, with 93 publications categorized under this broad field.

The primary subfields in which Elspeth Guild conducts research include political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and law. They have contributed notably to discourses overlapping these areas. Their work covers themes related to European criminal justice, data protection, European and international law, migration, refugees, integration, human rights, and development.

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Human Rights and Immigration
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • International Law and Human Rights

Elspeth Guild's recent papers include:

  • "Obedience in times of COVID-19 pandemics: a renewed governmentality of unease?", 2021, published in Global Discourse
  • "Schengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19", 2021, European Journal of Migration and Law
  • "Data retention and the future of large-scale surveillance: The evolution and contestation of judicial benchmarks", 2022, European Law Journal
  • "Covid-19 Using Border Controls to Fight a Pandemic? Reflections From the European Union", 2020, Frontiers in Human Dynamics
  • "The impact of war in Ukraine on EU migration", 2023, Frontiers in Human Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Elspeth Guild include:

  • Valsamis Mitsilegas
  • Niovi Vavoula
  • Didier Bigo
  • Elif Mendos Kuşkonmaz
  • Jürgen Bast

The scholar has also published books with Bristol University Press eBooks, including two editions of Lawless Borders, both slated for 2025.

Publication venues where Elspeth Guild's work frequently appears are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • European Law Journal
  • Frontiers in Human Dynamics
  • European Journal of Migration and Law
  • Global Public Policy and Governance

Best Publications

  • After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance

    Zygmunt Bauman;Didier Bigo;Paulo Esteves;Elspeth Guild

  • Security and Migration in the 21st Century

    Elspeth Guild

  • The EU's Response to the Refugee Crisis Taking Stock and Setting Policy Priorities

    Sergio Carrera;Steven Blockmans;Daniel Gros;Elspeth Guild

  • Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement Into and Within Europe

    Didier Bigo;Elspeth Guild

  • The Europeanisation of Europe's Asylum Policy

    Elspeth Guild

  • Illiberal Liberal States: Immigration, Citizenship and Integration in the EU

    Elspeth Guild;C. A. Groenendijk;Sergio Carrera

  • The legal elements of European identity : EU citizenship and migration law

    Elspeth Guild

  • International Terrorism and EU Immigration, Asylum and Borders Policy: The Unexpected Victims of 11 September 2001

    Elspeth Guild

  • Europe's 21st Century Challenge: Delivering Liberty

    Didier Bigo;Sergio Carrera;Elspeth Guild;R. B. J Walker

  • Security and the Two-Level Game: the Treaty of Prüm, the EU and the Management of Threats

    Thierry Balzacq;Didier Bigo;Sergio Carrera;Elspeth Guild

  • The Uses and Abuses of Counter-terrorism Policies in Europe. The Case of the "Terrorist lists"

    Elspeth Guild

  • Security versus Justice?: Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union

    Elspeth Guild;Florian Geyer

  • The Developing Immigration and Asylum Policies of the European Union:Adopted Conventions, Resolutions, Recommendations, Decisions and Conclusions

    Elspeth Guild;Jan Niessen

  • The Transformation Of European Border Controls

    Elspeth Guild;Didier Bigo

  • A Race against Solidarity The Schengen Regime and the Franco-Italian Affair

    Sergio Carrera;Elspeth Guild;Massimo Merlino;Joanna Parkin

  • Seeking refuge in Europe: spaces of transit and the violence of migration management

    Leonie Ansems de Vries;Elspeth Guild

  • The 2015 Refugee Crisis in the European Union

    Elspeth Guild;Cathryn Costello;Madeline Garlick;Violeta Moreno-Lax

  • In search of Europe's borders

    C.A. Groenendijk;E. Guild;P.E. Minderhoud

  • The EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary

    Elspeth Guild;Steve Peers;Jonathan Tomkin

  • Policing at a Distance : Schengen Visa Policies

    Didier Bigo;Elspeth Guild

  • The EU’s Response to the Refugee Crisis: Taking Stock and Setting Policy Priorities. CEPS Essay No. 20, 16 December 2015

    Sergio Carrera;Daniel. Gros;Steven. Blockmans;Elspeth Guild

  • Whose Freedom, Security and Justice?: EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy

    Anneliese Baldaccini;Elspeth Guild;Helen Toner

  • THE MIGRATION APPARATUS: SECURITY, LABOR, AND POLICYMAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

    Elspeth Guild

  • Trafficking in Persons

    Diego Acosta Arcarazo;Violeta Moreno-Lax;Elspeth Guild;Steve Peers

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lyon
David Lyon Queen's University
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds
Dimitry Kochenov
Dimitry Kochenov Central European University
Paul De Hert
Paul De Hert Tilburg University

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